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Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Art and Culture

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The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Art and Culture provides a thorough examination of the sociology of art and culture, with a focus on visual arts, literature, music, and digital culture. It challenges and extends Bourdieu's analysis of cultural capital by exploring cultural omnivorousness, the influence of age, gender, and class on cultural practices, and the evolving nature of popular and screen culture. The volume critiques sociological determinism and Eurocentrism, offering global and cosmopolitan perspectives. Using advanced relational research methodologies, the handbook not only surveys the field but also sets an agenda for future international scholarship.
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This handbook defines the sociological analysis of art and culture, focusing on the visual arts, literature, music and digital culture. Leading international scholars consider the restructuring of highbrow and popular culture; aesthetic preferences; ethnicity, migration and cosmopolitanism; and the rise of screen culture using state-of-the-art methods and theoretical innovations.

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The Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Arts and Culture offers a comprehensive overview of the sociology of art and culture, focusing especially—though not exclusively—on the visual arts, literature, music, and digital culture.

Extending and critiquing Bourdieu’s influential analysis of cultural capital, the distinguished international contributors explore the extent to which cultural omnivorousness has eclipsed highbrow culture, the role of age, gender, and class on cultural practices, the character of aesthetic preferences, the contemporary significance of screen culture, and the restructuring of popular culture.

The Handbook critiques modes of sociological determinism in which cultural engagement is seen as the simple product of the educated middle classes. The contributions explore the critique of Eurocentrism and the global and cosmopolitan dimensions of cultural life.

The book focuses particularly on bringing cutting edge ‘relational’ research methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative, to bear on these debates. This handbook not only describes the field but also proposes an agenda for its development which will command major international interest.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415855112

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 September 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 19 Tables, black and white; 19 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Halftones, black and white; 25 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by Mike Savage
  • Edited by Laurie Hanquinet

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1020g

Pages: 480

About the Author

Laurie Hanquinet is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of York. Her main fields of interest are sociology of culture and art as well as social sciences methodology. She has undertaken research on the visitors of modern and contemporary art museums, on the role of artists in the society and on different dimensions of cultural participation.

Mike Savage became Professor of Sociology at the LSE in September 2012, where he is active in leading the International inequalities Institute which began in 2015. Previously he was Professor at the University of Manchester, where he had been Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) from 2004 to 2010, and Professor at the University of York, where he founded the European Centre for Cultural Exploration from 2010-2012.

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